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Discussion of the NetGo rules

Article 1

Ellbur: If the object of an alliance is to occupy the greatest territory:

Does this mean more territoy than the other alliances, or just the greatest total territory for the one alliance?

What is the object of the players? Do they want one of their alliances to win? Do they want all of their alliances to be superior to others?

When does an alliance 'win'? When does a player 'win'?

How should the players consider their object relative to the success of the other players? Should they try to do better than others or best for themselves?

The rules don't answer any of these questions.

doraguma: Good points! I think, if for example A has 50, B has 40, and C has 60, the alliance C should be first, A second, and B third winner. There is no rule, if a player has won, or not. Only the alliances count. If one of the players in an alliance is not so strong, (s)he reduces the ability of the alliance.

If there are no non-color alliances, the player is supposed to play in favour for the alliance. (If not, he/she will not be invited often to play ;-) ) Of course all playing alliances can consist of only of one player.

I had no ideas for non-color alliance rules, yet.


Article 6 (ko)

doraguma: I am not sure, if this ko rule is the best extension for a multi player Go. What do you think?


David: How do the one-way connections (the ones marked with an arrowhead) work in practice? This breaks the commutativity of connections; e.g., a stone A can be connected to B but B is not connected to A.

[Diagram]

Say that the connections in this diagram go from left to right, so stones get connections and liberties only from the right. Before B1, WS has one liberty and the other white stone has one liberty through WS. What happens after B1? Clearly, WS will be captured, because its only liberty has been occupied. Is the other white stone captured too? Yes, because WS is in its chain, or no, because it is not in WS's chain?


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